[Larry Lucido]

Makes me wonder what might have happened if United 232 in Sioux City had been a comparable Airbus instead of a DC-10. Of course, I don't know that a catastrophic engine failure would have led to a similar loss of hydraulics.

[Spktyr]

My guess? 296 fatalities instead of 111, and a big smoldering crater somewhere in Iowa.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

On that DC- 10 , the 3 rd engine ( tail engine on top of the plane in the vertical stabilizer ) is what malfunction, the fan blade hub basically disintegrated, and the shrapnel hit the electric and hydraulic lines going to the rudder and elevators.
If those hydraulic lines were placed in the floor under passenger deck, those pilots of that DC - 10 would have had control of that plane, and it might not have been as disastrous as it was.